A guide to La Monte Young’s music

27 January 2015

The American minimalist has fed bales of hay to his piano but it's his six-hour-plus Well-Tuned Piano that has changed the way we hear music – quite literally. La Monte Young's magnum opus will have you entranced, bewitched and will change your sensory perceptions of the phenomenon we call music. It is a work for solo piano as you've never heard it before, and is simultaneously universal in its scope and intimate and enchanting in its effect, even as it opens the doors to new kinds of musical and psycho-acoustic experience"